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the presiding officer: the senator from indiana. a senator: i rise today in support of jobs and national security. first i want to take a moment to express my condolences to families who have lost loved ones in the tornadoes that struck indiana and other states on march 2. mr. lugar: last weekend senator coats and i toured the damaged areas of southern indiana and met with people who are dedicated to a full recovery from total devastation. i want to pay special tribute to advanced preparedness by the schools and many others that prevented even greater loss of life. also our gratitude goes out to the first responders who are doing amazing work in, some cases while facing their own devastating circumstances. i'm returning this weekend to encourage the continuing progress for recovery, and i'm working closely with governor daniels and other state officials to coordinate federal assistance that is appropriate given the level of devastation. madam president, i do rise in support of american jobs and national security in a very strong way
the presiding officer: the senator from indiana. a senator: i rise today in support of jobs and national security. first i want to take a moment to express my condolences to families who have lost loved ones in the tornadoes that struck indiana and other states on march 2. mr. lugar: last weekend senator coats and i toured the damaged areas of southern indiana and met with people who are dedicated to a full recovery from total devastation. i want to pay special tribute to advanced preparedness...
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. >> host: indiana, rik democratic collar. >> caller: good morning. >> host: go ahead. >> caller: actually, i think the problem started in the 80's. before 1980 the private sector, about 25 to 30% or union. in the 80's those jobs headed south to nonunion states. that created a rumsfeld. now 15 years is so until it got into the 90's and we have nafta. those jobs went to mexico. union jobs pay more. you have to have people making enough money to pay income tax which have the people don't make enough now. and they are the consumer. they drive the economy. and right now the union part in the private sector is around 45% i think that's part of the problem. >> host: what to you think of a mark zendi? >> guest: well, interesting points. at think the caller is right that in the 80's the nation's manufacturing sector got hit very hard, particularly in the upper midwest, michigan, ohio, indiana. a lot of those jobs went to the south. a lot of those jobs went to mexico and the emerging world. not only because of nafta, but because janet came on the scene and other emerging economies are very competit
. >> host: indiana, rik democratic collar. >> caller: good morning. >> host: go ahead. >> caller: actually, i think the problem started in the 80's. before 1980 the private sector, about 25 to 30% or union. in the 80's those jobs headed south to nonunion states. that created a rumsfeld. now 15 years is so until it got into the 90's and we have nafta. those jobs went to mexico. union jobs pay more. you have to have people making enough money to pay income tax which have...
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the son after church of god minister, pistole graduated from anderson university in indiana and indiana university law school in indianapolis. he joined the fbi in 1983 in minneapolis. he went on to work in new york before moving to the bureau's headquarters in washington to supervise the organized crime session. since 1999 when he helped lead the inquiry into the crash of egypt air flight 990 off nantucket, massachusetts, he has worked on some of the nation's highest profile cases involving national security. after the 9/11 attacks he was put in charge of the fbi's expanded counterterrorism branch, eventually becoming the bureau's executive assistant director of counterterrorism and counterintelligence. pistole led or was involved in a number of high-profile investigations including the 2003, suicide bombings in riyadh, saudi arabia, the breakup of a plot to bomb new york city subways in 2009, and later that year the case of the would-be "underwear bomber" on the detroit-bound jet on christmas. he also took part in the investigation of an attempted car bombing in times square in 2010.
the son after church of god minister, pistole graduated from anderson university in indiana and indiana university law school in indianapolis. he joined the fbi in 1983 in minneapolis. he went on to work in new york before moving to the bureau's headquarters in washington to supervise the organized crime session. since 1999 when he helped lead the inquiry into the crash of egypt air flight 990 off nantucket, massachusetts, he has worked on some of the nation's highest profile cases involving...
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director of consumer protection in the office of the indiana attorney general. with that, i give you michael bloom, our moderator. thank you. [applause] >> well, thanks, folks and good afternoon. this panel i suspect will be very interesting and informative and let's just get right to it. we are going to talk about fraud directed at the elderly. seems to be a natural question. why do we have a special panel on fraud on the elderly? there is research that concerns particular vulnerabilities, that older folks may have to make them more susceptible than others to certain kinds of frauds. i would like to start then with betsy about some of the research that the aarp may have done concerning those kind of vulnerabilities. if you could give us some of those, those factors that make older folks more vulnerable perhaps to the frauds you're talking about here today? >> it's on. okay. i want to first put it in perspective. there are not a great many of statistics how many elderly are victimized but we know elderly financial abuse is dramatically underreported. maybe 24 pe
director of consumer protection in the office of the indiana attorney general. with that, i give you michael bloom, our moderator. thank you. [applause] >> well, thanks, folks and good afternoon. this panel i suspect will be very interesting and informative and let's just get right to it. we are going to talk about fraud directed at the elderly. seems to be a natural question. why do we have a special panel on fraud on the elderly? there is research that concerns particular...
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we at the indiana attorney general's office have seen all of these scams within -- among the consumers that we are representing. one of the -- one of the scams that's very common in our area, partly because every year we face a lot of storms, which you've all been reading about in southern indiana and tennessee and illinois -- we always get tornadoes. we always get very severe storms with hail, et cetera. there are a group of scammers that will go from door to door and from state to state, following the storms. we typically call them storm chasers. sometimes we have a different group of scammers that we call travelers that just come seasonally depending on the situation. in case of the storm chasers, what will happen is they will follow a disaster and they will go door to door and say things like, i just repaired your neighbor's roof and i have some materials left over. i'll be happy to give you a discount on your repair for your house 'cause i've got, you know, one more day that i'm going to be here. if you decide right now. so there's the high pressure sales the person, you know, you
we at the indiana attorney general's office have seen all of these scams within -- among the consumers that we are representing. one of the -- one of the scams that's very common in our area, partly because every year we face a lot of storms, which you've all been reading about in southern indiana and tennessee and illinois -- we always get tornadoes. we always get very severe storms with hail, et cetera. there are a group of scammers that will go from door to door and from state to state,...
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for example, in indiana, the subject of the supreme court decision in 2008 was an indiana voter i.d. requirement. and in georgia, election data shows that turnout has actually increased since the package of these commonsense photo i.d. requirements. the data also shows that the voter i.d. laws in georgia and indiana had no negative impact on minority groups. and these findings should be unsurprising given some of the research that has been conducted by a number of universities. the university of missouri, the university of delaware, the university of nebraska, among others. research compiled at the university of denver and the university of nebraska from 2000 to 2006 leaves no doubt about the conclusion. they say -- quote -- "concerns about voter identification laws affecting turnout are much ado about nothing." close quote. in fight of these facts, in spite of the evidence, in spite of the law, the holder justice department continues to cling to their false narrative, claiming that texas has not demonstrated significant enough evidence of voter fraud to justify its voter identificat
for example, in indiana, the subject of the supreme court decision in 2008 was an indiana voter i.d. requirement. and in georgia, election data shows that turnout has actually increased since the package of these commonsense photo i.d. requirements. the data also shows that the voter i.d. laws in georgia and indiana had no negative impact on minority groups. and these findings should be unsurprising given some of the research that has been conducted by a number of universities. the university...